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A Rake’s Progress, Plate 3 (Primary Title)
A Rake's Progress (Series Title)

William Hogarth, English, 1697 - 1764 (Artist)

1735
English
Works On Paper
Prints
etching and engraving on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN/ 1820
European Art
Sheet: 19 5/16 × 25 5/8 in. (49.05 × 65.09 cm)
Plate: 14 × 16 in. (35.56 × 40.64 cm)
Image: 12 1/2 × 15 1/8 in. (31.75 × 38.42 cm)
2008.63
Not on view
Printed beneath image: "O Vanity of youthfull Blood,/ So by misuse to poison Good!/ Woman, form'd for social Love,/ Fairest Gift of Powers above! // Source of every Houshold Blessing,/ All Charms in Innocence possessing:/ But turn'd to Vice, all Plagues above,/ Foe to thy Being, Foe to Love! // Guest Divine to outward Viewing,/ Abler Minister of Ruins!/ And Thou, no less of Gift divine,/ Sweet Poison of Misused Wine! // With Freedom led to every Part,/ And secret Chamber of ye. Heart;/ Dost Thou thy friendly Host betray,/ And Shew they riotous gang ye. way, // To enter in with covert Treason,/ O'erthrow the drowsy Guard of Reason,/ To ransack the abandon'd Place,/ And revel there with wild Excess? // Invented, Painted, Engrav'd, & Publish'd by Wm Hogarth June ye. 25, 1735. According to Act of Parliament.__ Plate 3." Inscribed in graphite upper left: "29"
Bequest of Janet C. Green
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